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  • Athens on the Frontier

    Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860

    by Patrick Lee Lucas ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    In 1811, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe spurred American builders into action when he called for them to reject "the corrupt Age of Dioclesian, or the still more absurd and debased taste of Louis the XIV," and to emulate instead the ancient temples of Greece.In response, people in the antebellum trans-Appalachian region embraced the clean lines, intricate details, and stately symmetry of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • emerge 17

    The Writer's Studio Anthology

    by Gurjinder Basran, T. M. Baldwin, Lis Jakobsen, S. L. Shields, Tatiana Lee, Thomas Onstott, Michael Zibauer, Stephanie Gray, Robyn Drage, Cynthia C. Huijgens, Samantha Balliet, Elecia Chrunik, Shilpa Raju, Leslee Silverman, Michelle Stack, Neda Tanha, Tanya Boteju, Neha Puntambekar, Adriana Louis, Lorna Carley, Maureen Butler, Kathryn Lee, Scott Lear, Patrick Lucas, Christy Dunsmore, Leslie West, Megan Abele, Chelene Knight, Josh Keefer, Sharon Miki, Alyssa Hanada, Reese Kim Carrozzini, Urith Hayley, Gina-Lily D’Attilio, Carlie Blume, Fatima Amarshi, Sarah Amormino, Leslie Jenneson, Kurt Trzcinski, Cara Waterfall, Natasha Sanders-Kay, Stephen T. Berg, Viola Prinz, Graham McGarva, Junie Désil, Mak Berry, Paolo Marcazzan, Christine Leviczky Riek, Kimberley Phillips Boehm, Daniela Cohen ...
    Series Book 17 - emerge
    Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    by Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Love Her Wild

    Poems

    by Atticus ...
    The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation AtticusLove Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, who has captured the hearts and minds of well over 300k followers on his Instagram account, @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flare, Love Her Wild captures what is both raw and relatable about ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution

    Cities and the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics debated the issues of the day in taverns and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • A Distinct Alien Race

    The Untold Story of Franco-Americans, Industrialization, Immigration, Religious strife

    by David Vermette ...
    Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot. A Distinct Alien Race places these ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Paine's Iron Bridge

    Building a United States

    by Edward G. Gray ...
    The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States.In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 101 Funny Cat Jokes For Kids

    by Michelle Georgi ...
    Everyone loves cats! What's not to love? In this book you will find 101 Hilarious jokes about the cats, and everything we enjoy laughing about our feline friends. Fill your days with laughter, give this book as a gift, or use it to entertain your loved ones. These punny jokes make great icebreakers and will lighten any mood. Great to use in a classroom, near events, or times when you just need a ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    by Erin L. Thompson ...
    A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Sweet Affliction

    by Anna Leventhal ...
    One of the CBC’s Best Books of the Year.A pregnancy test is taken at a wedding, a bad diagnosis leads a patient to a surprising outlook, and a civic holiday becomes a dystopian nightmare. By turns caustic, tender, and creepily hilarious, Sweet Affliction reveals the frailties, perversions, and resilience of Anna Leventhal’s cast of city-dwellers. Shiftless youths, a compulsive collector of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Manliness and Its Discontents

    The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930

    by Martin Summers ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • William Wells Brown

    An African American Life

    by Ezra Greenspan ...
    **A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography'A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.**Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD